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Donna Dodson of NIST fills us in on the emerging research needs in cybersecurity. Dan Helfrich of Deloitte talks about the newly released report on leadership. Nick Taborek, a reporter with BGOV, discuss the up side of sequestration.

White House senior director for cybersecurity
Andy Ozment said budget folks are getting a
better understanding of why cybersecurity is
important thanks to the administration's high-
priority governmentwide goals. NIST also is
helping push the cross-agency goals forward from
a technical perspective.

NIST launched the National Cybersecurity Center
of Excellence in February and now is giving
industry details on how it will work. The
center's goal is to bring businesses and
government together to solve cyber problems.

The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.

Making the exclusive cut is cybersecurity rock star - Donna Dodson. She leads the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division and is the Deputy Chief Cybersecurity Advisor.

OMB mandated departments implement continuous monitoring of their cyber networks by 2012. Part of meeting that goal is understanding what hardware and software currently reside on the computing backbone.